How to deal with bottles, paper at transfer station

SALISBURY — Salisbury/Sharon Transfer Station Manager Brian Bartram gave the Salisbury Board of Selectmen (BOS) an update on single-stream recycling at the board’s Monday, Sept. 8, regular meeting.

Single-stream recycling went into effect July 1. 

He delivered his “three-second version” of how recycling now works at the Sharon-Salisbury Transfer Station.

“Bottles, cans, paper and cardboard all go into the old cardboard container.”

Bartram asked that transfer station users check the user’s guide (available at Town Hall and the transfer station, and issued with transfer station stickers) for instructions on disposing other materials.

He emphasized that this is single-stream recycling, not single-stream everything.

“Garbage still goes where garbage goes.”

First Selectman Curtis Rand said that Salisbury and Sharon had made an effort to handle recyclables themselves, hoping to sell them.

But prices dropped, and the towns wound up spending money to ship the materials to Albany.

So now the towns are back to sending recyclables to the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority, which means shipping to Torrington.

Selectman Kitty Kiefer said she was concerned that transfer station users might “get sloppy” with the new recycling regimen, and Bartram said that there has in fact been more contamination of the recycling container since single stream began.

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